We are using art to discuss one of the most important topics in Egypt, women’s empowerment, which involves many different issues, including the political, the social, the economic, and...

It’s quiet. Profoundly so. Rain whispers against the open window a few feet away. The only other thing you can hear is your own heart, thumping. I’ve known men who could not stand this...

that summer. a boyish summer. the summer I took the boyish waters. like being drowned that summer. that summer I practiced pulling my t-shirt on like a boy (2 arms neck) not a girl...

Writing has been a significant presence in my life from the very beginning, but over the years our relationship has shifted dramatically. I learned about writing as a small child because...

Welmon’s work, in his own words “made it out of prison before he did” and was valued by dealers and collectors for his meticulous, detailed rendering, inventive subject matter, and...

As I documented rehearsals, meetings, and exercises, I saw participants with disabilities—people often segregated and ostracized from mainstream society—use mobile keyboards and...

We wanted each woman to know without a shadow of a doubt that we, the cleverest of shape-shifters all, proficient at disappearing in the trade of secrets and lies, adept at reappearing in...

The doctors couldn’t say what had gone wrong, but after they tried their arsenal of antipsychotics and it had failed, they told me he would need one-to-one care twenty-four hours a day...

It started out as a joke to a friend: Our 750-square-foot house was actually pushing 800 square feet if you included my car, which was slowly becoming my home office. I found this...

So Napoleon House, now one of the French Quarter’s most loved establishments, is named for something that maybe almost happened. But didn’t.

I think long-term incarceration takes away people's options—takes away their belief that they can make their own decisions, so that's one of the things I do. I just refuse to make...